Call of Duty: Warzone’s new Sykov pistols have been overpowered since the moment they arrived in the game. Thankfully, developer Raven Software is stepping in with a massive nerf in the game’s latest patch to help make them a little less dominant. The patch specifically takes aim at the Sykov’s...
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CoD: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone season 3 to add new weapons, massive Verdansk event
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone season 3 looks to be the biggest so far for either game. On Monday, Treyarch and Raven Software released a massive preview of changes coming this season, including six new weapons, the return of Price as an Operator, the mysterious Verdansk...
I want to skip ahead to all games having both cross-save and cross-play
The gaming industry is in an incredibly awkward place right now, stuck between the old system of selling hardware by pushing exclusives, and the new reality of players expecting their entertainment to travel with them across different platforms. Today, the walls between the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and PC gaming ecosystems...
Apex Legends animated short shows off new character, a Titan pilot called Valkyrie
Apex Legends’ series of fantastic “Stories from the Outlands” animated shorts continue with Northstar, its latest release. The new entry in the series was released on Monday and revealed the game’s newest character and its most direct connection yet with Titanfall. The animated short follows the story of Valkyrie, a...
The forgotten hero of Mortal Kombat
Liu Kang is dead. It’s 2002, and after a rocky transition from 2D to 3D for the Mortal Kombat franchise with Mortal Kombat 4, players booted up the newest installment, Deadly Alliance, with feverish anticipation. They were greeted with an opening scene of Liu Kang, the franchise’s hero, training at...
Ben Barnes knew he was the perfect Darkling for Shadow and Bone thanks to Tumblr
If a popular book exists, Tumblr is chock full of ideas for an imagined adaptation. The fan casting goes beyond dreaming up who would play who in a hypothetical movie. Mood boards, GIF sets, and fan edits pay homage to users’ favorite material, collaged from a multitude of sources to...
Attack on Titan couldn’t escape controversy in the end
After a 12-year run, Attack on Titan has come to an end. The final panels of the manga jumped years after the Rumbling, focusing on a plot conceived by series protagonist Eren Yaeger to effectively enact genocide on the world at large. The coda is a tangle of images, sprinting...
Warzone outdoes itself with another broken close-range gun
It seems Warzone’s development team is slowly turning the battle royale shooter hardcore.Overnight, just as players were starting to enjoy Warzone again post the AUG nerf, an even more overpowered weapon entered the scene. Unfortunately, as we’ve come to expect from the battle royale mode, the weapon’s release doesn’t appear...
Outriders inventory wipe fix reportedly made it worse for some players
By Sherif Saed16 April 2021 10:14 GMT Outriders developers just can’t seem to catch a break on the inventory wipe problem.Yesterday, People Can Fly dropped the promised Outriders patch that’s meant to fix the bug wiping players’ inventories. While the developer works on figuring out when to restore players’ lost...
‘Don’t complain if there’s no sequel if you didn’t buy it full price’ says Days Gone developer
Days Gone director John Garvin has responded to the unraveling story about Days Gone 2.The writer and creative director of Days Gone took to David Gaffe’s podcast to state that players shouldn’t “complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel” if they didn’t buy it “at fucking full price”.“I do...